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CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE 
HEALING: 

SPIRITUAL  AND  SCIENTIFIC 


A    LECTURE    DELIVERED    BY 


PROF.   HERMANN  S.  HERING,  C.S.B. 

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SPIRITUAL  AND  SCIENTIFIC 


nPHE  healing  so  universally  accomplished 
through  Christian  Science  is  probably  the 
one  feature  of  its  work  which  attracts  the  most 
attention  and  which  has  been  most  misunderstood, 
since  its  methods  are  purely  mental  and  spiritual,*^ 
the  direct  opposite  of  those  employed  by  the  ordi- 
nary schools  of  therapeutics.  That  healing  has 
resulted  when  Christian  Science  treatment  has 
been  applied  after  all  other  means  have  failed,  is 
now  quite  generally  conceded;  but  the  manner  in 
which  this  healing  is  accomplished,  is  so  far  from 
being  understood  that  there  is  still  a  great  reluc- 
tance on  the  part  of  many  to  avail  themselves  of 
it,  and  some  still  question  its  possibility.  This, 
however,  can  be  just  as  truthfully  said  of  the 
healings  which  are  chronicled  in  the  Scriptures, 
especially  in  the  New  Testament,  where  the  spirit- 
ual means  of  healing  is  plainly  referred  to  and 
advocated,  and  where  many  instances  of  healing 
are  specifically  named. 

In  Exodus  we  read,  "I  am  the  Lord  that  heal- 
eth  thee;"  in  Psalms,  God  is  referred  to  as  He 


4  CHKISllAW   SCIE^SrCiE   HEALING: 

"who  healeth  all  thy  diseases;"  and  again,  "He 
sent  his  word,  and  healed  them."  In  Mark's  gos- 
pel we  read,  "These  signs  shall  follow  them  that 
believe;  In  my  name  shall  they  cast  out  devils; 
they  shall  speak  with  new  tongues ;  they  shall  take 
up  serpents ;  and  if  they  drink  any  deadly  thing,  it 
shall  not  hurt  them;  they  shall  lay  hands  on  the 
sick,  and  they  shall  recover."  These  citations 
show  that  mankind  should  look  to  a  spiritual 
source  for  their  healing  instead  of  to  drugs.  Had 
God  created  drugs  and  given  them  healing  power, 
Christ  Jesus,  who  came  to  show  us  the  way  of 
salvation,  or  deliverance  from  sin,  disease,  and 
death,  would  certainly  have  used  them  himself  and 
recommended  them  to  others.  His  own  success 
in  healing  proves  that  he  fully  understood  a  heal- 
ing art  which  has  no  recourse  to  material  means. 

^  INSTANCES     OF     HEALING 

Among  the  notable  instances  of  the  healing  of 
physical  disease  by  Christ  Jesus  as  recorded  in 
the  New  Testament  are  these:  The  healing  of 
paralysis  (Luke  v.  18-26),  of  leprosy  (Luke  xvii. 
11-19),  of  deformity  (Luke  xiii.  11-17),  of  blind- 
ness (Matt.  ix.  27-31),  of  fever  (Luke  iv.  38,  39), 
of  dropsy  (Luke  xiv.  2-4),  of  hemorrhage  (Matt, 
ix.  20-22),  of  violent  insanity  (Mark  v.  1-20), 
and  of  epilepsy  (Mark  ix.  14-29).  The  gospels 
also  record  Jesus'  work  in  the  raising  of  the  dead, 
as  Jairus'  daughter  (Luke  viii.  41-56),  the  widow's 


SPIRITUAL  AND   SCIENTIFIC  5 

son  (Luke  vii.  11-15),  and  Lazarus,  after  he  had 
been  dead  four  days  (John  xi.  1-44). 

Many  cases  are  also  recorded  as  having  been 
healed  by  the  disciples  and  by  some  of  Jesus'  fol- 
lowers who  were  not  his  personal  students.  In 
Acts  (v.  12)  we  read,  "And  by  the  hands  of  ihe 
apostles  were  many  signs  and  wonders  wrought." 
Peter  healed  a  man  lame  from  birth  (Acts  iii. 
2-8),  healed  ^neas  of  paralysis  (Acts  ix.  32-35), 
raised  Dorcas  (Acts  ix.  36-41).  Paul  healed  a 
cripple  (Acts  xiv.  8-10),  healed  Publius'  father 
of  fever  and  hemorrhage  (Acts  xxviii.  8),  raised 
Eutychus  to  life  after  his  accident  (Acts  xx. 
9-12),  healed  himself  of  the  sting  of  a  poisonous 
serpent  (Acts  xxviii.  3-6).  Philip,  who  like  Paul 
was  not  Jesus'  personal  student,  healed  insanity, 
paralysis,  and  lameness  (Acts  viii.  6,  7).  The 
seventy  are  reported  as  having  returned  to 
Jesus  to  tell  of  their  healing  work,  saying, 
"Even  the  devils  are  subject  unto  us  through  thy 
name." 

These  cases  show  unmistakably  that  Christian 
healing  was  effected  by  spiritual  and  not  material 
means;  they  teach  that  we  should  look  not  to 
matter  but  to  divine  Mind  for  the  true  healing 
power,  the  power  which  was  utilized  by  Christ 
Jesus  and  his  disciples.  In  the  case  of  congenital 
blindness  healed  by  Jesus,  of  which  John  tells  us, 
there  was  evidently  no  healing  virtue  in  the  clay 
and  spittle,  nor  in  the  water  of  the  pool  of  Siloam, 


6  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE    HEALING: 

for  if  there  had  been,  these  universally  available 
means  would  be  in  use  today  for  the  cure  of  this 
disease. 

SKEPTICISM    AS    TO    SPIRITUAL    HEALING 

To  be  consistent,  all  professed  believers  in  the 
Bible  must  therefore  admit  the  fact  of  spiritual 
healing,  which,  according  to  contemporaneous 
secular  writers  and  historians,  continued  among 
the  early  Christians  for  about  three  hundred 
years ;  and  yet  today  the  vast  majority  do  not  be- 
lieve in  it,  and  many  do  not  even  admit  it  to  be 
historically  true,  while  not  a  few  deny  its  possi- 
bility. "•  Some  say  that  these  events  may  have  hap- 
pened in  Jesus'  time,  but  are  impossible  now.  This 
is  neither  logical  nor  reasonable.  The  power  of 
God  is  "the  same  yesterday,  and  today,  and 
forever,"  and  if  this  healing  took  place  in  the 
first  century,  it  can  take  place  now,  since  every 
divine  law  and  order  must  be  immutable  and  we 
have  the  same  conditions  to  deal  with  which  they 
had  then. 

Jesus  said,  "Lo,  I  am  with  you  alway,"  and, 
"He  that  believeth  on  me,  the  works  that  I  do  shall 
he  do  also;  .  .  .  because  I  go  unto  my  Father." 
The'  Master  thus  taught  that  all  of  truth  is  always 
with  us,  and  he  came  to  show  us  how  to  make  it 
available.  This  is  the  way  of  salvation,  and  if 
this  way  cannot  be  found  and  followed  today,  then 
his  mission  was  surely  a  failure.     Think  you  that 


SPIRITUAL   AND   SCIENTIFIC  1 

Christ  Jesus,  the  great  Exemplar,  the  world's 
Wayshower,  would  have  taught,  demonstrated, 
and  enjoined  upon  mankind  a  healing  and  saving 
method  which  was  efficient  and  sufficient  In  the  first 
century,  but  impracticable  or  impossible  in  the 
twentieth  ? 

^It  is  not  possible  to  separate  Jesus'  word  from 
his  work!:  The  one  is  the  proof  of  the  other; 
yhence  the  healing  work  must  be  recognized  as  an  y 
essential  element  of  primitive  Christianity.  The 
healing  recorded  in  the  Bible  was  no  more  readily 
believed  when  it  occurred  than  It  is  now,  save 
by  the  relatively  few  who  were  impressed  by  the 
evidence  presented  or  who  experienced  spiritual 
transformation.  The  Scriptures  record  the  intense 
hatred  and  persecution  which  the  early  Chris- 
tians endured  because  of  their  belief  in  the  efficacy 
of  spiritual  power  This  Is  corroborated  in  secu- 
lar history,  and  it  is  noteworthy  that  the  hatred 
was  most  intense  when  spiritual  power  was  most 
in  evidence,  especially  so  at  the  moment  the  heal- 
ing was  done. 

Judging  by  its  fruits,  and  by  the  fact  that  it 
certainly  stimulates  a  higher  order  of  thought 
and  living,  all  must  admit  that  this  spiritual  heal- 
ing Is  a  far  better  method  than  the  use  of  material 
means.  This  being  true,  we  can  but  ask.  Why  is 
it  not  in  general  use  among  Christian  people? 
Evidently  because  it  is  not  understood,  for  there 
exists  today  a  very  general  disbelief  in  Its  possi- 


8  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE    HEALING: 

bility,  a  stubborn  tendency  to  doubt  it,  in  spite 
of  the  many  authentic  records  of  such  healing  in 
the  past  and  through  Christian  Science  now. 

CAUSES    OF     UNBELIEF 

Let  us  then,  if  we  may,  examine  into  some  of  the 
causes  of  this  disbelief  in  Scriptural  or  Christian 
healing.  What  are  they  ?  First :  It  is  difficult  for 
most  of  us  to  see  how  physical  results  can  be 
realized  through  spiritual  means.  The  teaching  of 
the  schools  regarding  the  nature  of  matter  and 
material  existence,  produces  such  a  materially 
biased  consciousness  that  it  is  very  difficult  to 
apprehend  spiritual  existence  and  spiritual  power. 
Second:  The  popular  teaching  regarding  the 
nature  of  God  and  of  His  relation  to  all  being,  to- 
gether with  the  belief  in  the  reality  of  material 
existence  and  its  asserted  laws,  is  at  variance  with 
the  Scripture  teaching.  Third:  The  inertia  of 
the  human  mind  resists  belief  in  anything  which 
differs  from  what  it  has  been  accustomed  to;  it  is 
innately  opposed  to  all  things  spiritual  or  divine, 
and  it  is  to  this  mental  attitude  that  St.  Paul  re- 
ferred when  he  said,  "The  carnal  mind  is  enmity 
against  God."  We  thus  see  that  it  is  material 
sense  which  hinders  the  attainment  of  an  under- 
standing of  the  spiritual  healing  of  the  Bible; 
this  is  the  fertile  soil  from  which  springs  the  doubt, 
agnosticism,  and  infidelity  of  our  times. 


SPIRITUAL    AND    SCIENTIFIC  9 

MENTAL     CAUSATION 

One  of  the  most  puzzling  questions  to  the  lay 
thinker  Respecting  spiritual  healing'^is  this:  How 
can  a  mere  mental  effort  bring  about  a  physical 
change;  how  can  it  restore  health  and  harmony? 
This  difficulty  is  largely  due  to  the  failure  to' 
understand  the  nature  of  Mind  and  the  relation- 
ship between  the  inner  world  of  thought  and  the 
outer  world  of  phenomenaT^  Let  us  consider  this 
question  briefly,  first  from  a  human  or  material 
standpoint,  then  from  the  Christian  Science 
standpoint. 

All  are  familiar  with  the  effect  of  fear,  grief, 
and  anger  upon  bodily  conditions.  Tears  flow; 
the  circulation  of  the  blood  is  altered,  as  shown 
by  pallor ;  the  secretions  are  affected,  as  shown  by 
cold  perspiration,  etc.  These  effects  prove  that 
physical  changes  follow  mental  disturbances.  An 
eminent  physician  has  made  a  series  of  experiments 
showing  the  effect  of  the  emotions  upon  the  secre- 
tions, and  has  found  that  under  the  influence  of 
love  and  hate,  serenity  and  anger,  pleasure  and 
pain,  the  secretions  present  marked  chemical  dif- 
ferences; all  of  which  gives  evidence  that  mental 
conditions  are  the  real  causes  of  disease.  Many 
physicians  will  even  admit  that  malignant  diseases 
have  been  caused  by  grief,  worry,  and  sin ;  indeed, 
it  is  now  becoming  more  and  more  evident  that  the 
cause  of  all  disease  is  mental.     Even  what  are 


10  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE    HEALING: 

termed  hereditary  diseases  and  conditions  are  now 
believed  by  many  to  be  of  mental  origin,  as  there 
is  no  other  way  to  account  for  them. 
^  Again,  we  are  all  familiar  with  the  fact  that 
diseases  and  distressing  symptoms  are  alleviated 
when  fear  and  worry  cease  and  the  harmonious 
effects  of  peace,  happiness,  and  satisfaction  prevail.' 
Take  a  rubber  ball,  grasp  it  tightly  in  the  hand, 
thereby  destroying  its  normal  outline;  then  re- 
move the  pressure  of  the  fingers,  and  when  the 
strain  is  gone^  the  ball  resumes  its  natural  shape. 
In  a  similar  way,  mental  disturbances  clamp  the 
body,  put  it  under  a  strain,  distort  it;  but  when 
these  disturbances  are  removed,  the  body  becomes 
normal^  natural. 

This  effect  of  thought  on  the  body  is  readily 
admitted  even  by  pronounced  materialists.  Cheer- 
fulness, the  habit  of  looking  on  the  bright  side  of 
things,  is  generally  acknowledged  to  be  an  aid  in 
preserving  and  restoring  health.  Yet  he  who  be- 
lieves in  material  causation  will  say:  "I  cannot 
admit  that  malignant  and  organic  diseases  may 
be  caused  or  cured  by  thought.  Possibly  my  head- 
ache will  disappear  when  I  stop  worrying  or  being 
angry,  but  how  can  I  get  rid  of  a  tumor  or  of 
Bright's  disease  by  simply  thinking  about  it.?" 

This  expresses  the  attitude  of  mortal  thought, 
and  in  answer  to  its  questions  it  is  well  to  bear  in 
mind  that  the  marvelous  healing  recorded  in  the 
Bible,  much  of  which  is  entirely  above  and  beyond 


SPIRITUAL  AND   SCIENTIFIC  11 

any  possible  achievement  of  medical  or  surgical 
practice,  was  actually  accomplished  through  men- 
tal or  spiritual  activity  alone,  and  that  Christian 
Science  has  in  the  same  way  healed  every  known 
disease.  Admitting  these  facts,  we  are  the  better 
prepared  to  discuss  the  manner  in  which  this  heal- 
ing is  accomplished. 

NATURE    OF    EXISTENCE 

In  the  first  place,  it  is  necessary  for  us  to  con- 
sider what  existence  is,  and  the  relation  between 
mind  and  body. '  All  will  admit  that  to  exist  means 
to  be  conscious.'  Then  individual  existence  is  indi- 
vidual consciousness,  and  since  consciousness  is 
^mental,  existence  is  mental.  From  this  it  follows 
that  the  character  of  existence  depends  upon  the 
character  of  consciousness.  It  is  also  evident  that 
hereditary  tendency  and  educated  bias  largely  de- 
termine the  character  of  consciousness,  and  since 
our  mental  make-up  and  perceptive  faculties  vary 
greatly,  it  is  manifest  that  no  two  people  can  have 
the  same  consciousness  or  even  see  the  same  object 
alike.  For  example,  an  aeroplane  viewed  by  a 
civilized  person  and  by  a  savage,  awakens  alto- 
gether different  concepts.  A  flower  is  a  very  dif- 
ferent thing  to  a  botanist  from  what  it  is  to  an 
engineer.  The  impression  received  of  the  shape 
and  size  of  an  object  depends  upon  the  shape  and 
size  of  the  lens  of  the  eye,  and  individual  lenses 
are  manifestly  as  different  as  individual  physiog- 
nomies. 


12  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE    HEALING: 

Again,  since  human  consciousness  is  acquired 
largely  through  the  five  physical  senses,  it  par- 
takes of  the  nature  of  material  sense.  'This  sense- 
testimony  is  always  relative  and  never  absolute/ 
It  is  dimensional,  finite,  variable,  inexact.  Echoes 
do  not  locate  sound  correctly.  Distant  objects 
are  not  small  because  they  appear  so.  Astronomi- 
cal phenomena  are  not  what  they  seem  to  be.  The 
sun  does  not  move  across  the  sky  and  the  earth 
is  not  stationary.  Color  is  not  absolute,  neither 
are  the  reports  made  to  us  by  the  senses  of  taste, 
smell,  and  touch. 

V^  MATTER     A     MENTAL     CONCEPT 

According  to  recent  discoveries  in  physical 
science,  matter  is  a  form  of  energy,  instead  of  the 
indestructible  stuff  or  entity  it  has  been  believed  to 
be.  Its  unit,  the  atom,  is  found  to  be  composed 
of  positive  and  negative  electrical  corpuscles, 
called  electrons  or  ions.  Through  mechanical  and 
chemical  processes  a  material  object  may  be  re- 
duced to  its  ultimate  theoretical  limit,  called 
atoms.  Further  separation  of  these  atoms  into 
their  constituent  electrons  or  ions,  leaves  nothing 
of  our  material  object  but  a  form  of  energy,  a 
theoretical  manifestation  of  force  in  which  every 
vestige  of  the  characteristics  of  matter  or  the 
object  has  disappeared.  What  the  nature  and 
history  of  a  separated,  a  freed  electron  may  be,  is 
something  for  the  physicist  to  puzzle  over. 


SPIRITUAL   AND   SCIENTIFIC  18 

Idealistic  philosophy  and  psychology  teach  that 
material  objects  are  but  objectified  mental  im- 
pressions or  concepts,  and  not  substantive  enti- 
ties exterior  to  consciousness.  For  example: 
When  we  look  at  what  we  call  a  material  thing,  we 
experience  an  impression  made  upon  consciousness 
by  light,  which  is  all  we  ever  see.  Light,  accord- 
ing to  physics,  is  vibration,  or  a  form  of  energy 
which  impresses  itself  upon  consciousness,  and 
this  impression  we  have  been  educated  to  objectify. 
We  have  inherited  and  cultivated  the  habit  of 
believing  it  to  be  matter,  or  an  object  which  we 
see,  whereas  it  is  merely  the  experience  of  a  men- 
tal impression  we  have  unconsciously  objectified; 
and  this  is  true  also  of  the  phenomena  of  hearing, 
taste,  touch,  and  smell. 

We  never  really  see,  hear,  feel,  taste,  or  smell 
matter  or  objects,  but  merely  experience  sense- 
phenomena  which  we  call  matter.  What  we  think 
we  see  is  not  an  object  exterior  to  consciousness, 
but  only  an  impression  in  consciousness  due  to 
what  is  assumed  to  be  some  form  of  vibration. 
Furthermore,  according  to  psychology  and  phi- 
losophy, there  is  no  evidence  of  any  existence 
external  to  consciousness ;  hence  existence  is  meas- 
ured by  consciousness.  We  thus  see  that'^matter 
must  be  defined  as  a  mirage,  as  an  appearance  of 
substance  rather  than  substance  itself,  and  it  is 
therefore  wholly  mental,  a  state  of  mortal 
consciousness.  ^ 


14  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE    HEALING: 

These  are  not  the  teachings  of  Christian  Science, 
but  the  conclusions  reached  through  research  and 
discovery  in  the  domain  of  physical  science,  psy- 
chology, and  philosophy,  and  they  show  that  even 
from  a  physical  standpoint  what  we  term  matter 
is  not  what  it  is  generally  believed  to  be,,  but  is 
wholly  a  mental  phenomenon,  and  has  not  been  and 
cannot  be  accounted  for  in  any  other  way.  Christ 
Jesus  proved  what  is  called  matter  to  be  wholly 
mental  when  he  walked  on  the  water,  stilled  the 
tempest,  and  overcame  other  so-called  material 
conditions. 

MATERIAL     MENTALITY 

^  Having  seen  the  mental  nature  of  matter,  let  us 
now  consider  the  nature  of  the  mind  which  per- 
ceives material  things  and  of  which  matter  is  the 
objectified  concept  or  extern alization,  the  mind 
which  largely  constitutes  human  consciousness. 
This  mind  is  a  consciousness  of  which  the  factors 
are  dimensional,  variable,  destructible,  and  our 
concept  of  the  nature  of  these  factors  is  gained 
through  the  testimony  of  the  five  physical  senses. 
It  is  a  consciousness  of  evil,  sin,  disaster,  and 
death.  It  claims  to  be  intelligence,  but  is  inhe- 
rently non-intelligent:  it  knows  nothing  of  itself, 
it  has  to  be  educated.'  It  claims  to  be  substance, 
but  is  really  shadow,  since  it  is  based  on  false  tes- 
timony. It  claims  to  be  life,  but  is  really  death, 
since  it  is  not  self-sustaining.     Recognizing  the 


SPIRITUAL   AND   SCIENTIFIC  16 

nature  of  this  so-called  mind,  St.  Paul  named  it 
"carnal,"  and  Mrs.  Eddy  designated  it  "mortal," 
since  sin,  disease,  and  death  are  its  inevitable 
products. 

Thus  we  see  that  all  discordant  conditions  exist 
solely  as  phenomena  and  experiences  of  this  carnal, 
mortal  mind,  as  states  of  human  consciousness"; 
hence  their  healing,  their  correction  or  destruc- 
tion, involves  a  transformation  of  this  conscious- 
ness. '  As  existence  implies  consciousness,  and  as 
the  body  is  externalized  consciousness,  the  condi- 
tions of  existence  and  of  the  body  depend  upon 
one's  mental  state.  ^A  discordant  consciousness 
results  in  discordant  existence.'  It  is  therefore 
necessary  to  change  the  human  consciousness  if 
we  wish  to  have  changed  conditions.  How  is  this 
to  be  done? 

First,  it  is  necessary  to  determine  whether  the 
mortal  or  carnal  mind  with  its  experiences  is  true, 
for  we  know  that  the  initial  step  in  the  correction 
of  any  mistake  is  the  perception  of  the  mistake. 
We  recognize  an  error  when  we  know  the  truth 
which  it  falsifies.  When  we  apply  the  corrective 
truth  to  an  error,  it  disappears,  and  right,  har- 
monious conditions  prevail.  If  the  phenomena  of 
mortal  mind  were  true,  they  could  never  be  altered. 
If  untrue,  they  cannot  be  corrected  until  we  know 
their  falsity.  It  is  impossible  to  correct  an  error 
until  it  is  recognized  as  such.  For  example,  if  we 
receive   a  wrongly   computed  bill   and  believe  it 


16  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE   HEALING: 

right,  we  are  deceived  and  suffer  for  it.  Yet  we 
do  not  perceive  that  it  is  wrong  until  we  know 
what  is  right.  Directly  we  know  the  truth  about 
the  facts  involved,  this  knowledge  corrects  or  dis- 
places the  error,  the  wrong  concept. 

THE     NATURE     OF     TRUTH 

Let  us  then  examine  into  the  essential  nature 
and  character  of  Truth,  of  that  which  really  is, 
and  learn  whether  matter  and  mortal  mind  are 
true  and  real,  for  we  have  seen  that  matter  and 
material  existence  are  mental,  and  we  must  now 
determine  the  truth  regarding  this  mentality. 

Truth  by  its  very  nature  is  infinite,  everywhere. 
Being  that  which  is,  there  can  be  no  place  where 
Truth  is  not;  therefore  Truth  is  omnipresent. 
Truth  is  intelligent,  always  knowing  enough  to  be 
itself  and  never  anything  else;  being  infinite,  it  is 
infinitely  intelligent;  that  is,  omniscient.  Truth 
is  almighty,  having  power  to  be  itself  and  to  resist 
being  anything  else,  power  to  correct  that  which 
seems  to  falsify  it.  Truth  being  infinite,  the  power 
of  Truth  is  infinite,  omnipotent.  Truth  is  inde- 
structible, since  it  is  impossible  for  any  element, 
quality,  or  particle  of  omnipresence  or  real  being 
to  be  annihilated. 

We  thus  see  that  Truth  is  actuality;  absolute, 
fundamental,  independent;  without  beginning  or 
ending,  without  dimensions  or  limitations.  It  is 
immortal,    forever    self-sustained;     it    is    eternal 


SPIRITUAL   AND   SCIENTIFIC  17 

Principle,  the  source  of  all  true  being,  harmonious 
and  perfect. 

Truth  is  thus  identified  in  Christian  Science  as 
Spirit,  Mind,  Soul,  Life,  the  supreme  Ego,  the 
great  I  AM,  the  one  infinite  God,  the  God  of 
Abraham,  Isaac,  and  Jacob,  the  God  whom  Jesus 
called  his  Father,  the  God  whom  St.  John  defined 
as  Love.  This  infinite,  all-inclusive,  all-creating, 
omnipotent,  omnipresent,  omniscient  divine  Love, 
is  the  incorporeal  God  revealed  through  Christian 
Science.  Man  as  the  image  and  likeness  of  God, 
the  real  man  of  the  Scriptures,  must  be  like  his 
Father,  not  corporeal  but  incorporeal;  not  ma- 
terial but  mental,  spiritual  consciousness;  not 
mortal  but  immortal.  The  universe  created  and 
constantly  sustained  by  God  must  be  like  Him, 
for  like  produces  like;  therefore  the  real  universe 
is  not  finite  but  infinite ;  not  destructible  but  inde- 
structible ;  not  material  but  spiritual. 

THE    NATURE    OF    REALITY 

Thus  reality  is  essentially  infinite,  without  limi- 
tations or  dimensions,  infinite  in  extent,  in  pres- 
ence, in  wisdom,  and  in  power.  It  is  unchanging, 
indestructible,  eternal.  It  is  harmonious,  perfect, 
spiritual.  Therefore  the  standard  of  infinity, 
indestructibility,  and  perfection  is  the  test  of 
reality.  Whatever  has  not  these  qualities  or  at- 
tributes of  infinity  and  perfection  does  not  express 
Truth.  Matter,  mortal  mind,  and  the  discordant 
material  consciousness  being  finite,  mutable,  de- 


18  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE    HEALING: 

structible,  are  not  true,  not  absolutely  real.  Per- 
fect God,  perfect  man,  and  perfect  spiritual  being, 
' — this  is  the  basis  of  all  Christian  Science  teach- 
ing, analysis,  and  practice.  This  is  the  standard 
by  which  Christian  Science  measures  and  tests  all 
human  phenomena  and  experiences  in  order  to 
determine  their  true  value. 

Truth,  however,  cannot  be  cognized  by  the 
physical  senses,  for  because  of  their  material  limi- 
tations these  senses  cannot  perceive  infinity,  the 
finite  cannot  cognize  the  infinite.  Truth  is  per- 
ceived only  through  the  understanding,  which  is 
not  dependent  upon  the  testimony  of  the  physical 
senses.  For  example,  even  the  truths  of  the  mul- 
tiplication table  are  discerned  not  through  the 
sense  of  sight,  but  through  the  understanding. 
The  physical  figures  which  we  see  are  not  the 
mathematical  truth;  this  truth  is  invisible  to  the 
physical  senses,  discernible  only  through  mathe- 
matical understanding. 

Similarly  God,  the  real  man  and  real  universe, 
are  discerned  not  through  the  physical  senses,  but 
only  through  spiritual  sense  or  spiritual  under- 
standing, and  this  spiritual  understanding,  the 
perception  and  apprehension  of  divine  Truth, 
Christian  Science  makes  possible  to  all. 

DISCORD    AN    ERROR 

Disease,  sin,  death,  all  discords,  are  therefore 
to  be  classed  as  errors  of  mortal  consciousness/' as 


SPIRITUAL   AND    SCIENTIFIC  19 

mesmeric,  illusory  mental  conditions.'  '  On  this 
basis  they  can  be  corrected  and  healed  by  Truth, 
while  they  cannot  be  corrected  so  long  as  they  are 
classed  as  either  physical  or  mental  realities'.  Even 
according  to  psychology  and  philosophy  they  are 
but  objectified  sense-impressions.  Thus  we  can 
begin  to  separate  the  wheat  from  the  tares,  the 
actual  from  the  seeming,  the  real  from  the  unreal 
in  the  human  consciousness. 

Most  of  us  have  believed  that  God  sends  disease, 
disaster,  and  death  to  His  children;  but  if  this 
were  true,  we  would  have  no  moral  right  to  use 
any  healing  means  whatsoever,  for  by  so  doing  we 
would  be  interfering  with  the  divine  plan  and  pur- 
pose. If  God  makes  us  sickly  and  dying,  it  is  our 
business  to  be  sick  and  die.  Dominated  by  such  a 
belief,  it  is  of  course  impossible  to  understand 
Christian  healing  or  to  be  healed  spiritually. 

''Discordant  conditions  exist  only  in  that  human 
consciousness  which  is  largely  mortal,  which  is  a 
belief  of  both  good  and  eviH  *^They  are  not  the 
products  of  Truth  or  Principle,  hence  they  are  not 
divine  creations.'  Realizing  this  in  some  degree, 
their  assumed  power  is  at  once  lessened,  and  we 
can  begin  to  free  ourselves  from  them  by  turning 
to  divine  sources  in  the  realm  of  reality.  Then  we 
begin  to  see  that  God  is  not  the  author  of  sin, 
disease,  and  death,  and  that  we  do  not  have  to 
experience  them.  The  apprehension  of  this  one 
point  often  results  in  healing. 


20  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE    HEALING: 


MENTAL     CUEE     OP     DISEASE 

^^  Fear  is  admitted  to  be  a  prolific  cause  of  disease. 
The  Bible  says,  "Perfect  love  casteth  out  fear." 
Fear  is  due  to  ignorance.  Perfect  Love  is  the 
infinite  divine  intelligence.  When  intelligence  is 
brought  to  bear  on  ignorance,  ignorance  is  de- 
stroyed, and  thus  does  "perfect  love"  cast  out 
fear,  and  of  necessity  its  effects.  It  is  readily 
seen  how  important  it  is  to  let  Truth  control  our 
thought.  When  we  indulge  in  thoughts  of  limita- 
tion, fear,  sickness,  mortality,  then  consciousness 
partakes  of  the  nature  of  these  thoughts,  and  the 
body  likewise.  When  we  engage  in  thoughts  of 
infinity,  spirituality,  health,  life,  our  conscious- 
ness must  partake  of  the  nature  of  these  thoughts, 
and  the  body  likewise. 

'  Since  disease  has  a  mental  origin,  it  is  manifest 
that  it  must  have  a  mental  cure!  A  man  suffering 
from  physical  disease  produced  by  hatred,  for 
example,  cannot  be  permanently  healed  by  drugs 
or  surgery.  He  needs  to  have  the  hatred,  whether 
from  within  or  from  without,  neutralized  by  its 
true  antidote,  divine  Love.  Then  the  evil  cause 
is  destroyed  and  its  effects  disappear.  Christian 
Science  explains  this  clearly  and  rationally,  so 
that  Christian  Science  Mind-healing  can  be 
demonstrated  by  any  one  in  the  degree  of  his 
understanding  of  it.  This  healing  relies  on  a  spir- 
itual method  which  is  both  simple  and  logical. 


SPIRITUAL   AND    SCIENTIFIC  21 

^In  answer  to  the  inevitable  question,  How  does 
Christian  Science  heal?  we  need  to  remember  that 
the  truth  and  error  about  a  given  thing  cannot 
exist  in  a  given  consciousness  at  the  same  time, 
since  they  are  opposites. '  We  cannot  believe  that 
two  times  two  make  both  five  and  four.  The  heal- 
ing of  the  error  of  sickness  must  be  akin  to  the 
healing  of  any  other  error  of  belief.  Mathematical 
truth  applied  to  error  in  computation  always 
removes  that  error  and  establishes  right  results. 
'.The  truth  about  God  and  man  annuls  false  human 
belief,  and  this  removes  the  effects  of  such  belief.*^ 
Human  discord  and  disease  exist  only  as  a  false 
state  of  consciousness,  a  mistaken  sense,  a  mes- 
meric dream  condition  which  has  no  real  existence, 
no  relation  to  the  divine  Mind  and  its  perfect 
reflection.  ""When  the  truth  of  being  is  known  and 
applied,  it  destroys  the  false  belief,  and  this  im- 
proved condition  is  externalized  in  harmony.  ^ 

RIGHT     MENTAL    ACTION 

As  the  body  is  an  externalization  of  conscious- 
ness, if  we  change  the  consciousness,  the  condition 
of  its  externalization  will  also  be  changed.  How  is 
this  to  be  done?  In  answer  we  would  say  that 
^since  Christian  Science  healing  is  wholly  mental, 
it  must  be  accomplished  through  the  activity  of 
the  truth  in  human  thought,*' and  in  this  connection 
it  is  well  to  consider  what  thinking  is,  in  order  that 
we  may  think  aright,  may  engage  in  right  mental 


22  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE    HEALING: 

action.  ^A  wrong  belief  cannot  be  corrected  with 
a  wrong  thought/  Thinking  is  the  exercise  of 
intelligence  or  mind,  therefore  real  thinking  is  the 
actiA'ity  of  real  Mind.  Real  Mind  is  the  divine 
consciousness,  the  infinite  intelligence.  Truth. 
Real  thinking  is  thus  the  activity  of  the  divine 
Mind,  or  Truth.  The  activity  of  Truth  in  con- 
sciousness is  the  knowing  of  Truth ;  therefore,  real 
thinking  is  right  knowing.  We  can  know  only  the 
truth,  never  error. »  We  can  never  know  that  two 
times  two  make  five,  because  they  do  not.  We  can 
only  believe  it.  We  can  never  know  sin,  disease, 
and  death,  or  anything  that  is  wrong,  evil,  or 
material ;  we  can  only  believe  it. 
V  Being  infinite,  perfect,  and  divine,  real  Mind  is 
good.!  Therefore  evil  is  not  mind,  and  evil  think- 
ing is  not  true  mind  action ;  and  all  that  j^  evil  and 
material,  limited,  discordant,  and  mortal- in  human 
thought,  is  not  intelligence,  not  mind,  but  a  coun- 
terfeit of  it ;  that  is,  false  belief/  What  is  termed 
the  mortal  mind  is  not  real  Mind.  That  mind 
action  which  is  based  upon  belief  in  matter  and  its 
discordant  conditions,  is  not  real  thinking,  because 
it  is  not  right  thinking,  not  right  knowing.  "Gray 
matter,"  so  called,  cannot  know;  it  is  Mind  alone 
that  knows. 

How  can  Truth  be  brought  to  bear  upon  con- 
sciousness in  order  that  the  belief  of  disease  and 
its  cause  may  be  destroyed?  When  we  think 
rightly  of  any  truth,  this  truth  is  present  with  us 


SPIRITUAL   AND    SCIENTIFIC  23 

in  consciousness,  is  active  there,  just  as  when  we 
think  rightly  of  the  multiplication  table  the  truth 
of  mathematics  is  with  us  in  thought  or  we  could 
not  think  mathematically.  Likewise  when  we 
think  rightly  of  divine  Truth,  Life,  Love, — God, — 
which  Christian  Science  makes  possible  today, 
Truth  is  present  with  us  in  consciousness, — "God 
with  us."  St.  Paul  wrote  to  the  Ephesians  of  the 
one  God  who  is  "through  all,"  that  is,  omnipresent. 
Thus  He  is  already  present  and  has  but  to  be 
known.  And  as  by  knowing  Truth  we  reflect 
Truth  and  bring  it  into  action  in  our  conscious- 
ness, so  by  knowing  God  we  reflect  Him,  and  it  is 
by  this  right  knowing  of  God  that  divine  Truth 
and  Love  are  reflected  in  consciousness  and 
brought  to  bear  upon  our  human  problems. 

The  spiritual  knowing  is  real  consciousness,  the 
consciousness  of  the  real  man;  it  is  communion 
with  the  infinite  Father-Mother  God.  It  is  true 
Christian  prayer, — "Not  my  will,  but  thine,  be 
done."  Such  prayer,  "in  his  name,"  is  answered 
in  healing  the  sick,  reforming  the  sinner,  and  in 
supplying  all  our  needs. 

HEALING    NOT     THROUGH     SUGGESTION 

"^The  healing  power  which  Christ  Jesus  utilized 
in  his  wonderful  healing  work  was  not  understood 
by  the  people  who  witnessed  these  works."  Some 
who  recognized  the  fact  that  this  healing  was 
brought  about  through  mental  means  alone,  re- 


24  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE    HEALING: 

fused  to  believe  that  the  healing  power  was  divine, 
and  said  that  it  was  evil,  acting  through  the 
human  mind;  namely,  through  hypnotism.  They 
cried  out,  "This  fellow  doth  not  cast  out  devils, 
but  by  Beelzebub  the  prince  of  the  devils."  So 
also  today  many  admit  that  Christian  Science 
heals  mentally,  but  they  insist  that  this  healing  is 
accomplished  through  hypnotism.  They  do  not 
understand  the  nature  and  power  of  divine  Mind. 
^Since  Christian  Science  healing  involves  a 
know^ledge  of  spiritual  truth,  a  recognition  of  ma- 
terial error,  and  the  application  of  this  truth 
thereto,  this  healing  is  not  effected  through  men- 
tal suggestion,  or  the  influence  of  one  mind  over 
another.^  It  is  not  mental  domination,  nor  the 
exercise  of  the  human  will,  and  it  is  essential  to  a 
right  apprehension  of  Christian  Science  that  this 
should  be  clearly  understood. 

For  example:  When  a  mathematician  corrects 
a  mathematical  error,  it  is  not  his  will  which  makes 
this  correction,  but  the  mathematical  truth  which 
he  knows  and  applies.  The  power  is  inherent  in 
the  mathematical  truth  and  not  in  the  will  of  the 
mathematician.  When  an  ill  or  sin  is  healed  in 
Christian  Science,  it  is  not  the  will  of  the  Chris- 
tian Scientist  which  does  the  healing,  but  the 
spiritual  truth  which  he  knows  and  applies  to  the 
human  error.  The  power  is  in  the  truth  itself,  not 
in  the  human  will.  Jesus  said,  "Ye  shall  know  the 
truth,  and  the  truth  shall  make  you  free."     This 


SPIRITUAL   AND    SCIENTIFIC  26 

definitely  distinguishes  Christian  Science  from 
hypnotism,  magnetism,  or  mental  suggestion  of 
any  form.  The  hypnotizer  endeavors  to  secure 
control  of  his  patient's  mind,  to  dominate  it,  and 
to  superimpose  upon  it  his  own  thought  and  pur- 
pose, be  it  good  or  evil.  Hence  the  danger  of  this 
method. 

^K^nowing  the  nature  of  God  and  the  real  man  to 
be  spiritual  and  perfect,  the  Christian  Scientist 
recognizes  the  fact  that  the  diseased  or  sinful 
conditions  are  but  false  mesmeric  states  of  con- 
sciousness, and  he  applies  his  understanding  of 
divine  Truth  as  the  remedy.  ^  He  knows  the  un- 
reality of  the  appearance  called  a  sick  man,  just 
as  the  mathematician  knows  that  two  times  two  do 
not  make  five,  even  though  he  sees  it  written  out. 
He  knows  that  they  make  four  regardless  of  ap- 
pearances. Jesus  said,  "Judge  not  according  to 
the  appearance,  but  judge  righteous  judgment." 

ABSENT     TREATMENT 

The  healing  of  patients  who  are  at  a  distance 
from  their  practitioners  has  frequently  been  mis- 
understood and  pronounced  impossibly  notwith- 
standing that  Jesus  healed  the  centurion's  ser- 
vant and  the  nobleman's  son  without  being  present 
with  them.  'This  misjudgment  arises  from  the 
mistaken  belief  that  the  healing  is  accomplished 
through  the  transmission  of  thought,  ^  and  that 
distance  hinders  this  transmission.     In  Christian 


26  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE    HEALING: 

Science  healing  there  is  no  thought  transference, 
for  mortal  mind  is  not  a  factor  in  the  healing.^ 
The  divine  Mind  being  omnipresent,  the  human 
knowing  of  the  truth  regarding  a  sick  man  at  a 
distance  brings  Truth  to  bear  on  the  case  the  same 
as  if  he  were  near  by.  In  the  realm  of  Spirit 
there  is  no  space,  no  time,  and  no  sick  man. 
All  is  infinite  Mind  and  its  perfect,  ever-present 
ideas. 

It  is  important  to  see  that  Christian  Science 
healing  includes  a  denial  of  error  as  well  as  the 
affirmation  of  the  truth,  the  reason  for  this  being 
that  the  belief  in  matter,  sin,  and  disease  is  so 
fixed  in  the  human  consciousness  that  a  specific 
denial  helps  to  weaken  and  destroy  that  belief.*^ 
This  denial  can  be  made  only  from  the  basis  of 
spiritual  truth;  it  is  but  the  reverse  side  of  the 
declaration  of  truth,  and  it  is  the  truth  alone,  not 
the  denial  of  error,  which  heals.  ^Indeed,  the  key- 
note of  Christian  Science  healing  is  the  knowing 
of  the  allness  of  Spirit  and  the  nothingness  of 
matter.  ^ 

SUMMARY 

To  epitomize : '  In  Christian  Science  healing  we 
must  first  know  the  nature  and  character  of  divine 
reality,  then  see  that  what  is  termed  material  ex- 
istence is  wholly  mental,  and  that  sin,  disease,  and 
death  are  not  of  God,  but  are  manifestations  of 
erroneous    states    of   human    consciousness,    and 


SPIRITUAL   AND   SCIENTIFIC  27 

therefore  neither  true  nor  authoritative K*^e  thus 
perceive  that  we  do  not  have  to  be  sick,  for  God 
did  not  make  us  so.»  When  spiritual  knowing 
dominates  consciousness,  the  error-banishing 
influence  of  divine  Truth  and  Love  establishes 
harmony. 

As  with  the  healing  of  sickness,  so  is  it  with  the 
healing  of  sin,  the  overcoming  of  evil.  We  must 
see  that  it  is  not  of  God,  divine  Mind;  that  it  is 
therefore  unreal  and  powerless  and  no  part  of 
man.  This  correction  of  thought  with  spiritual 
truth  destroys  the  error,  the  impulse  to  do  wrong. 
Sin  causes  suffering  so  long  as  it  is  believed  and 
indulged  in ;  but  when  sin  is  mastered  and  the  evil 
thought  destroyed,  man  is  set  free  from  this  bond- 
age and  begins  to  experience  the  promised  liberty 
of  the  sons  of  God. 

^Christian  Science  is  thus  seen  to  be  reformatory- 
and  regenerative.  It  uplifts  consciousness,  brings 
man  nearer  to  God,  and  makes  him  better 
acquainted  with  his  own  true  selfhood."  It  improves 
him  morally  and  physically,  which  improvement 
continues  as  his  spiritual  development  progresses. 
To  the  Ephesians,  St.  Paul  writes :  "This  I  say 
therefore,  and  testify  in  the  Lord,  that  ye  hence- 
forth walk  not  as  other  Gentiles  walk,  in  the  vanity 
of  their  mind,  having  the  understanding  darkened, 
being  alienated  from  the  life  of  God  through  the 
ignorance  that  is  in  them,  because  of  the  blindness 
of  their  heart:   .   .   .  that  ye  put  off  concerning 


28  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE    HEALING: 

the  former  conversation  the  old  man  [material 
consciousness],  which  is  corrupt  according  to  the 
deceitful  lusts;  and  be  renewed  in  the  spirit  of 
your  mind;  and  that  ye  put  on  the  new  man 
[spiritual  consciousness],  which  after  God  is  cre- 
ated in  righteousness  and  true  holiness."  Chris- 
tian Science  makes  it  possible  for  us  all  to  begin  to 
do  this  today. 

Finally  it  must  be  understood  that  Christian 
Science  healing  is  not  a  mere  mental  method,  re- 
quiring simply  the  entertainment  and  repetition 
of  certain  thoughts.  Being  scientific,  it  calls  for 
accurate,  logical,  metaphysical  reasoning  and 
analysis,  a  correct  mental  application  of  divine 
Principle;  Above  all,  it  demands  a  clear  realiza- 
tion of  the  allness  of  God,  Spirit,  and  the  noth- 
ingness of  His  opposite,  evil  and  matter.  Divine 
Love  alone  makes  this  spiritual  illumination  pos- 
sible, for  Love  is  the  real  healer  in  Christian 
Science. 

MES.    eddy's    discovery 

It  is  important  to  recognize  that  Christian 
Science,  the  demonstrable  knowledge  of  the  Christ- 
teaching,  is  a  discovery,  not  an  invention.  This 
notable  discovery  was  made  by  Mrs.  Eddy  in  1866, 
and  it  was  proclaimed  to  the  world  in  her  great 
work,  "Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the 
Scriptures,"  which  was  first  published  in  1875. 
This  book  contains  a  complete  statement  of  the 


SPIRITUAL   AND    SCIENTIFIC  29 

teachings  and  practice  of  Christian  Science.  It 
interprets  the  Bible  so  that  it  can  be  understood, 
its  redemptive  truth  be  practically  utilized.  Very 
many  have  been  healed  of  organic,  structural,  and 
functional  diseases,  as  well  as  of  sin,  while  reading 
this  book.  I  know  this  to  be  true,  for  I  have  per- 
sonally investigated  many  such  cases. 

This  healing  is  explained  by  the  fact  that 
spiritual  truth,  touching  a  receptive  consciousness, 
and  perchance  entertained  there,  brings  about  a 
change  in  thought  by  correcting  erroneous  con- 
cepts. It  thereby  establishes  harmony  on  a 
spiritual  basis,  and  this  harmonious  consciousness 
is  externalized  as  a  well  body. 

Mrs.  Eddy  was  a  woman  of  great  moral  cour- 
age and  possessed  a  very  unusual  degree  of  relig- 
ious feeling.  From  childhood  she  was  deeply  inter- 
ested in  religious  and  philosophical  subjects.  She 
was  an  earnest  seeker  for  spiritual  truth,  and  in 
her  search  examined  all  channels  which  promised 
to  lead  her  into  the  light;  but  without  avail,  for 
the  truth  was  not  to  be  found  in  human  theories 
and  systems.  Finally,  when  on  a  sick-bed,  suf- 
fering from  a  supposedly  fatal  accident,  she  was 
suddenly  made  well  as  the  truth  of  God's  ever- 
present  healing  power  dawned  upon  her.  She 
realized  that  she  had  been  healed  through  divine 
influence,  rmd  at  once  entered  upon  a  careful  study 
of  Christ  Jesus'  words  and  works,  that  if  possible 
she  might  apprehend  the  Science  underlying  this 


80  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE    HEALING: 

healing  truth,  with  the  view  of  giving  it  to  a  long- 
suffering  world. 

My  acquaintance  with  Mrs.  Eddy  for  many 
years,  besides  my  association  with  her  on  many 
occasions,  enables  me  to  speak  of  her  exalted 
Christian  character.  Tenacious  adherence  to  her 
highest  concept  of  spiritual  truth,  consecration  to 
the  work  of  establishing  this  truth,  spiritual  wis- 
dom in  leading  and  directing  this  great  Christian 
movement,  unfeigned  love  for  God,  for  His  Christ, 
and  for  all  mankind, — these  were  dominant  traits 
of  character  in  the  great  yet  gentle  woman  who 
discovered  and  established  Christian  Science.  The 
modern  wise  men  should  say  of  her  as  was  said  of 
old :  "Give  her  of  the  fruit  of  her  hands ;  and  let 
her  own  works  praise  her  in  the  gates."  One  of 
Mrs.  Eddy's  greatest  achievements  was  this:  she 
proved  the  Bible  to  be  true  by  demonstrating  that 
its  teachings  are  applicable  today;  and  for  this 
scientific  illumination  of  the  divine  Word  the  whole 
world  owes  her  a  lasting  debt  of  gratitude. 

CONCLUSION 

^  Those  who  question  Christian  Science  healing 
should  ask  themselves  whether  they  really  believe 
in  the  healing  work  done  by  Christ  Jesus  and  his 
disciples.  ^  If  they  do  not  thoroughly  believe  in  the 
spiritual  power  exercised  over  material  conditions, 
and  its  possible  availability  for  all  time,  as  de- 
clared in  the  Bible,  then  their  opposition  is  not  to 


SPIRITUAL   AND    SCIENTIFIC  81 

Christian  Science,  but  to  the  Christianity  which 
Jesus  taught  and  practised.  Christian  Science 
stands  ready  to  come  to  their  rescue  and  to  bring 
an  elucidation  of  Jesus'  teachings  which  will  result 
in  blessings  such  as  they  have  never  before  believed 
possible.  Those  who  have  not  read  the  New  Testa- 
ment recently,  will  do  well  to  do  so.  Let  me  ask 
them  to  read  at  least  one  of  the  gospels,  also  the 
book  of  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles,  which  record  the 
healing  done  by  Christ  Jesus  and  his  followers  of 
that  day,  and  which  are  verified  by  the  works  of 
Christian  Science  today. 

The  fact  that  Christian  Scientists  do  not  yet 
do  all  the  wonderful  works  that  Jesus  did,  is  a 
cause  for  regret,  but  not  for  discouragement  or 
criticism.  We  are  glad  that  Jesus'  work  proves 
Christian  Science  to  be  true,  and  that  Mrs.  Eddy 
rediscovered  the  Science  of  Christian  healing  and 
has  given  it  to  the  world.  This  healing  is  possible 
in  proportion  to  our  spiritual  understanding. 

In  Science  and  Health  (pp.  42,  44,  45),  Mrs. 
Eddy  writes :  "The  resurrection  of  the  great 
demonstrator  of  God's  power  was  the  proof  of  his 
final  triumph  over  body  and  matter,  and  gave  full 
evidence  of  divine  Science, — evidence  so  important 
to  mortals."  "He  proved  Life  to  be  deathless  and 
Love  to  be  the  master  of  hate.  He  met  and  mas- 
tered on  the  basis  of  Christian  Science,  the  power 
of  Mind  over  matter,  all  the  claims  of  medicine, 
surgery,  and  hygiene."     "Jesus'  deed  was  for  the 


82  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE    HEALING 

enlightenment  of  men  and  for  the  salvation  of  the 
whole  world  from  sin,  sickness,  and  death." 

Do  medicine,  surgery,  physiology,  chemistry, 
and  physics  aid  us  in  understanding  Jesus'  great 
work  for  humanity?  Do  they  bring  us  such  en- 
lightenment and  salvation?  Do  they  show  us  a 
better  way?  If  not,  where  should  we  place  our 
faith? 

In  closing, '  let  me  recommend  that  when  the 
temptation  comes  to  believe  the  arguments  of 
suffering  or  sin,  it  is  well  to  stop  a  moment  and 
think;  well  to  know  that  they  do  not  come  from 
God,  that  He  does  not  cause  or  support  them, 
therefore  they  are  not  true,  and  we  do  not  have  to 
believe  in  them  or  be  governed  by  themV  When  we 
recognize  disease  as  mental  and  false,  and  realize 
that  man  is  God's  spiritual  idea,  governed  by  His 
love,  we  begin  to  experience  harmony,  something 
of  the  peace  "which  passeth  all  understanding," 
and  this  will  increase  in  proportion  as  our  under- 
standing increases.  Christian  Science  makes  this 
possible  today. 


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